Caractéristiques des activités infirmières et infirmières puéricultrices dans le cadre des programmes d'éducation thérapeutique en diabétologie pédiatrique : une étude qualitative descriptive.

Introduction: Therapeutic patient education programs provide support to children with type 1 diabetes and their families. Nurses participate in these programs as part of a multidisciplinary team, but their activities are currently under-documented in the literature. Objective: To describe nursing activity in pediatric diabetes patient education programs. Method: Descriptive qualitative study by semi-structured individual interviews with nurses working in the hospital sector or in educational stays, with lexicometric analysis of discourse. Results: Twenty nurses, including ten child and young people nurses participated in the study. The participants describe the communication and adaptation competences mobilized to manage the educational activity and its traceability. The specific needs of patients are taken into account by the adaptability and variety of teaching methods and tools mobilized according to age, level of understanding, and culture. Discussion: Nurses seem to develop relational competences to deliver and coordinate therapeutic education, without necessarily being coordinators. They confirm the need to take into account the specific needs of the child and adolescent. Organisational constraints appear to generate collective competences between health educative professionals and patients and between peers. Conclusion: This study makes it possible to take into consideration the nurses' perception in the development of an inter-regional educational program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]